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The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage - Agriculture, Trade, and Family (Hardcover)
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The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage - Agriculture, Trade, and Family (Hardcover)
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In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and
empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The
Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer
and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of
storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in
Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia. Following on from the material
turn, an abstract notion of 'surplus' makes way for an emphasis on
storage's material transformations (e.g. wine fermenting; grain
degrading; assemblages forming), which actively shuffle social
relations and economic possibilities, and are a sensitive indicator
of changing mentalities. This archaeological study tackles key
topics, including the moral resonance of agricultural storage;
storage as both a shared and a contested concern during and after
conquest; the geography of knowledge in domestic settings; the
supply of the metropolis of Rome; and the question of how empires
scale up. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman
archaeology and history, as well as anthropologists who study the
links between the scales of farmer and state.
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